Re: New year, clean install, any advantage to having applications on D: instead of C:?
- From: "jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:37:34 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 3, 10:55 pm, Daniel James <wastebas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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, Jameshanle...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
But I am not so keen on one HDD partitioned for apps and data.
It gives the option of deleting one partition, and your data being
fine. But that is scary.. What if you delete the wrong one, then you
lose your data.
That's not really the point ... it gives the option of wiping the
system partition and doing a clean reinstall of Windows when the system
borks itself (as it seems to do more often than it should) without
destroying the data partition.
The data partition should, of course, be backed up ... but as we all
know, when disaster does strike it picks the moment at which the
greatest damage will be done -- when you've just decided that that
overdue backup will have to wait another day! Even if you *do* have
up-to-date backups it's nice not to have to take the time to restore
all the data.
What?????!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will respond to that
Let me just quote that again and try to respond to it
That's not really the point ... it gives the option of wiping the
system partition and doing a clean reinstall of Windows when the system
borks itself (as it seems to do more often than it should) without
destroying the data partition.
You seem to be referring to when the OS partition "borks itself", so
this is just an OS issue rather than a HDD issue
I guess you are not referring to a HDD issue there.
(unless you are talking about one partition getting corrupted, but
another being fine. I have not seen that, but I don`t mess with that.
And when I say corrupted, I mean HDD issue - causing corruption).
The data partition should, of course, be backed up ... but as we all
know, when disaster does strike it picks the moment at which the
greatest damage will be done -- when you've just decided that that
overdue backup will have to wait another day!
Even if you *do* have
up-to-date backups it's nice not to have to take the time to restore
all the data.
So let`s get this straight.. Now you are referring to the data
partition going, right?
And Why aren`t you restoring all the data? Why is it nice not
restoring all the data. What are you talking about?
If data is on a separate hard drive then at least you can unplug the
drive with your data, before you go removing an OS partition.
(just as it is standard practice to remove any drive you are not
formatting, when formatting a drive. Because accidents do happen)
But that is scary.. What if you remove the wrong one, then you lose
your data.
<smile>
That requires that you screw up twice.
And the big problem with having one HDD with 2 separate partitions, is
that when it comes to deleting them, the darn partition "management"
programs don`t show you the data on them - which would of course be a
good, clear way to identify the partitions.
Norton Ghost refers to drives as 0,1,2, or something..
You have to know how Norton numbers them..
I think it goes according to how they are listed in the BIOS.. Or
perhaps, just IDE0, IDE1. Or both, maybe they do not contradict. I
have not done enough different machines to know for sure.
I saw one machine with IDE and SATA, like IDE0,IDE1,SATA0,SATA1, I
think Norton numbered the partitions in the order they appear in the
BIOS. But that was with one partition on each drive. (and even then,
only 2 drives were plugged in).
Size of partition is another identifier.. So they would have to be
different sizes.. And maybe Drive Label is another way, if it shows
drive label.
It wouldn`t be so bad if a program displayed the data on the partition
when you select it for deletion.
Maybe deleting them with partition magic, from within windows, would
let one see the data on them. (Perhaps it reboots and goes to DOS to
do the job, but the issue is human sureness at the point where
deletion is initiated).
It is less tense if you remove the drive with your data on it so it
doesn`t get smashed when you restore your OS partition.
.
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